 Hello again, it is Friday and that means it's an FNA Friday. It's actually Friday evening and it's really hot in this office It's so hot actually The heat is my enemy. It's my conflict and that is the topic today You're gonna talk about conflict and how I love Okay, not really I don't really love conflict, but the thing is I've talked about how an environment can make sure animation better I talked about how you can escalate things where you have things happen to the character and so on and so on So the different ways of how you can make a shot more interesting But one of the ways that makes it more interesting in terms of learning more about your character is to give your character a problem An obstacle or a conflict to overcome so conflict to me is really important because as I said in a previous example in the clip way way back is that if you have your Puppy on fire and then you have your computer on fire with all your animation work Which one are you gonna save and it's the computer? No, it's the puppy of course, but whatever Choice the character will make is going to be interesting So you're gonna go like that's a good character I can I can see why he or she would do that or like how dare that character do this This is horrible. They could be a hero or a villain But whatever problem or conflict the character is facing the character has to make a choice They have to make a choice to fix that problem though overcome that conflict and the choices will tell us some Thing more about the character or if I want to quote Robert McKee from his book story He says true character is revealed in the choices a human being makes on the pressure the greater the pressure the deeper The revelation the truer the choice to the characters essential nature. So yeah, that sounds a lot smarter than when I say it But yeah, so previous examples I showed the kid who had to push the garbage can and it was so much wind it was blowing him away and it was just very very difficult and That conflict that problem that well, there's so much winds kind of showed us how Determined he was he really wanted to do this He didn't give up same thing with the news person who was trying to talk about World news and in the family and the kids are in the background And that was kind of the his problem that he had to overcome and as an audience It's just interesting to see this is happening to this person. So you're wondering how is he gonna get out of this? How is he going to react and it's just it's just more engaging just more interesting to watch So today's example to illustrate the conflict that is interesting at least to me in shots that you could animate is this clip Where a kid is on the far left He's the main character and you can see they're all playing and he is very very very concentrated She yeah, yeah, she looks somewhere. She does her job and he's also pretty really concentrated And this goes on and on and on and I have a link in the description so you can see the whole thing I'm a scrub forward and now as conveniently the cameraman zooms in here. You can see pay attention to the left person this Instrument falls out. It is great. It's great. I love it I love how he has to look at their reaction of this kid is so good, too Yeah, the event happening on the left. He looks over but he stays put continues Super-serious super-serious continues. He has practiced this for months I think he has a little bit of a smirk. He'll see it later But I'm not gonna spoil it just yet and then you can see her so again during the whole event She has that expression here as well. What's going on a Little of a smile. She think it's funny or she continues y'all continue, but I like the contrast. He's kind of lost He's super-serious. She's it's great. Why not? Let's keep going So that is the conflict and as an audience I'm going what is he going to do all eyes are on him He doesn't have the instrument. He's gonna stand there. What is he going to do? So as you look at him now, what is his choice going to be he? Salutes and of course, she thinks it's awesome. He breaks character for a moment Well, then it gets back to being serious and the awesome thing is that he continues This all continues and it's awesome Everybody thinks it's funny is great and he continues and stays put and the shot continues and so on and so on again I'll look in the description and you'll watch the whole thing, but this is so good So imagine you have a shot where potentially the assignment is a character plays an instrument And if you would do this unless it's a very interesting way of playing the instrument and just going through the motion Which could be interesting Imagine or you can ask your teacher or you mentor or whatever your situation is you can say well Could I potentially introduce a problem? Could I introduce a conflict? Can something happen to that character the Simon is still playing an instrument and I'm doing this But at the same time I'm having something happen to the character so that the audience can see well What kind of person is this are they going to run away because embarrassed are you going to salute like him? And it's gonna be awesome So whatever choices the character is gonna make is going to be cool for the audience to watch and it gives you an Opportunity to do more than just body mechanics just movement You can reveal character and your acting choices and also your sense of humor your sense of entertainment I think it all helps to kind of embellish and further explore a shot and a character in your scene And the conflict doesn't have to be massive It could be just something small just to give it a little bit of extra extra oomph something more interesting Or it could be something a bit more elaborate like way way back when I showed the clip from the in keepers Where she was trying to put the garbage into the garbage container and it doesn't work It's that little moment of where she puts it up and she tries a bit longer Just those couple frames where it's not just I'm trying and it failed But I'm trying and it's clearly not gonna work But she tries anyway and she holds on to that moment again revealing something about the character and you can do this with humans You can do this with animals. What's the animal going to do to get to his treats? Maybe my dog he wants to get his little biscuit, but something is in the middle and and interrupts his Quest to the food. So what is he going to do? So you can apply this to creatures to humans But I think this could be an interesting thing an interesting layer one more thing to give your shot Just something a little bit of a twist some more interest So it's not just pure movement or pure body mechanics, which you can always say you can totally do it's totally valid It's a great assignment But all by example center being up here in in previous movies is how you want to take the shot a step further just to Reveal a bit more about your character because it is character animation at the end of the day and not just animation You don't know it just animates for animation sake You want to give this a bit more character unless character is absolutely not your objective It's totally different of course of course of course I'm just saying if you have the character this could be something of interest if you have any other examples If you have anything on YouTube or wherever Comment let me know send me a link that would be awesome so I can collect these for further examples and show that in my Classes so kind of a short and sweet, but I think an important step in terms of all of your Preparations is it an environment that can help your acting? Is it a conflict that helps your acting? There are all those things that I would think about as you plan your shot And as you shoot reference and just gather all information all the inspiration for your shot before you actually start Blocking things out which probably is going to be next week's topic How to properly block out a shot and in the future weeks We're gonna get into more of the nitty-gritty and the animation side of attacking a shot the technique the workflow and So on so that's coming up in the future FNAs And of course if you like this give this a like if you want to subscribe do so I will not say no because if you subscribe and hit the bell button You're gonna get notifications about all the uploads of course and if you watch the whole thing till the very end I appreciate it. I think it's awesome. Especially doing very very hot summer nights You could do something else, but no you are watching this clip and I'm not gonna continue on because it's already too long Because it's the end so thank you very much and I will see you next week